A MOST STRENGTHENING BEVERAGE A SON OKOURAGE BY ARCHIE P. McKISHNIE Copyrighted by Thomas Alle*. I i I I CHAPTER Billy called and she turned to him with a smile. "Oh, I'm o glad you c*me, Billy," she said. "Ycu can help me decorate uncle's grave." She dropped the yellow blossoms on the mom: 1 and they went into the sunshine together and gathered more. When they had finished tho task they went across to the weedy plot in which stood the tumble-down hut. There, seated side by side beneath a gnarled wild-apple tree, Billy told her all he had to tell her, and heard herjksay, just as he knew she would say, "Billy, I'm glad." Then between them fell silence, filled with understanding and content- ment and thoughts that ran parallel the same long track through future promise. Billy spoke, at length: "He's goin' to take the school ag'in. An' him an' me are goin' to build that sail- boat we've always wanted a big, broad-beamed, single sticker that'll carry all of us you, me, teacher, Erie an' anybody wants to come along. Gee! aL-'t it great?" | The girl nodded. "And what will you name her?" she asked. Into Another moment and he was outside beside Lou, bag and box in his arms. Ooaker was nowhere to foe seen; neither was the gold piece which he had dropped in his amazement at sight of Billy and Lou. | "He went back and got it," said the j girl, in answer to Billy's look of. amazement. "And, Billy, he flew away in an awful grouch." "Oh, hell soon get over it," laughed Billy. "We'll find him waitin' fer us farther on." They crossed the lot and went through the pines to the sunny open. There, on a mossy knoll, Lou spread her cloak, and Billy poured the gold from bag and box upon it. Lou started to count the money. Billy sat back, watching her. "Yes, sir," he mused, "it certainly takes a good woman to steady a man." For ten glorious minutes he buil't air castles and dreamed dreams. "Two thousand nine hundred and forty dollars," Lou announced, and Billy jumped up. "Whew!" he whistled, "an' all gold, too. The three pieces that Croaker make the even three thousand." AFTER! EVERY I MEAL V UJ WfflGLEYS ; horse; | ever see such a change in in your life?" has sure fattened up,": Jim. "I guess it would puz- tle old Johnston to know our horse now, eh, Bill?" "You mean your horse, Jim," cor-| reeled Billy. Maurir ri Rillv <tr*H at him Maurice and Billy stared at him. " ^ ' 'Well, what of it? Maurice found him a soft hidin' place and good pas- ture on bin Dad'* farm, didn't he?" "Sure, but then" "And it's you who's goin' to see he gets cared for all winter, ain't i "You bet it is," cried Billy. "Well, then, I claim he's s horse an' you an' me an' Maurice is that company. Now, that's settled, ! let me tell you what Maurice and me was talkin' about when you met us."i Billy unr.apptd the tic-strap from Thomas' halter so that he might crop tho wayside* grusi and sat down on a occupied by his friends. Jim nudged IVJaurice but Muurii-r rhpok his head. "You tell him," he said. "Bill," Jim cried eagerly. "I got a bit of news for you that'll rnuke you want to stand- on your head and kick splinters off the trees." BiHy grinne:!. "An 1 I got a piece of news fer you fellers, too," he returned. "But go on. your news first, Jim." i "Tearhvr St::nh<>pc* lias made over a doe'l of [/..>. t Man's Swamp to you, Bill." said Jim. "I heard Dn-l tf!l ; ng Mr. Hinter all about it. Dad was there wh<-n Lawyer Maddoc drew up the dfi--! -Maurice, you crazy hyena, will you keep quiet?" Maurice h;ul rolled backward off the lojf, while he emitted cries that would have done a ?calp-hunting Indian credit. 'Three cheers for Bill!" he yelled. "He discovered Lost Man's Swamp oil flcl.l. Trigger Finger Tim ain't got nuthin' on our Bill." Billy was standing up now, his per- plexed face turned quejtioningly on his chums. "That's right, Bill," cried Ji:n. "You really did discover it, you know. Hin- ter said he was the only one who knew the oil was there until you rafted out to the ponds and saw the oil-hubbies breakin' on 'em. He says that a for- tuni- likely lies there, so you sec "An 1 Teacher Stanhope, he deeded the Ewamp to me," said Billy dazedly. He got up from the log and squared his shoulders. "Well," ho spoke, "that was mighty good of him, but I ain't wantin' that swamp." "But, Bill," urged Jim, "the oil they've found there'll make you rich." Billy shook his head. "I'm as rich as I ever wnni'n tin right now, Jim." "Ix>ok here. Bill," cried Maurice. "You don't want'a hurt Teacher Stan- hope'* feelin's, do you?" Billy glanced at him quickly, a troubled look in his eyes. "N-no," he' aid, "you bet I don't." "Then that's all there is to it; you : keep Ix>?t Man, that's what you do." Billy considered. "I ain't sayin' jest what I'll do," ho spoke finally. "I got- ta ask another person's advice on thin among the mosses, he passed Here he paused and his Not until he had put some distance ,, cgitatilv ., That ig ^ ' don - t ' between himself and his friends did hej nl j n{ } .(.member that he had not told themj The Iden ^^ wag ^wed and j he great and wonderful news that; when it wag raigd to him> saw m | had been imparted to him by o d dec color in the cheeks a M fterj Harry Well never mind they would i glow in the "Come," she said hear it soon. Harry would see to that.' softly .. we must ^ Citing back." He turned into a path that strayed They cogged the sun fi ec ked grass, far up among clumps of red-gold | haml in hand . As they reac hed the maples and ochre-stained oaks. The ( pine grove the ?irl pointed away above whistle of quail sounded from a ridge . t h e trees. "Look," she whispered, of brown sumachs. Up the hill, across Billy's gaze followed hers. High, the deep valley, where wmtergreen ] above the tree3 a black gpeck canle > ing toward them, a speck which! quickly into a bird, a big, black j vho knew, apparently, just where' j he was going. "It's Croaker," Billy whispered.; clump of tall poplars gleam-! "Stand right still, Lou, an' we'll watch) ed silvery-white against the dark ' an' find out what his game is." green of the beeches; far down at the; He drew her a little further among! c-ud of the sweep of yellow tops of j the pines and they peered out to see: hardy willows stood silhouetted ; Croaker alight on thc broken-backed ' against the udying green of massed j ridge pole of the log hut. cedars and pines. Billy gazed down | Here, with many low croaks, he pro-' upon it all and his heart swelled with ceeded to search his surroundings with the deep joy of life, his nerves tingled ! quick, suspicious eyes, straining for-; to the tang of the woodland scents. 'ward to peer closely at scrub or bush, Something deep, stirring, mysterious,; then runnirvgly twisting about sud-, what that something was it was too skulking watcher behind him un-j vague and incomprehensible for de- uwares. "It'll make 'em a grand weddin' gift, Lou." "Yes," she answered, "a grand wed- ding gift, Billy." In silence they passed on through th upland gowned in hazy, golden spray. At the height of land they paused to look down across the sweep- ing country below them. Then blue eyes sought grey and hand in hand, with a new glad vista of life opening before them, they went into the valley. (The End.) "Season to Taste." The subject of seasoning is indeed i:.-:ition just yet. His arm about the trunk of a tree, Finally he seemed satisfied that he was alone. His harsh notes became . laughed softly, as his eyes, sweep- * f l guttural coos. He nodded ing thc checker-board of autumn's ' b| K " ea<l U P an(i down in * rave satis-, glories, rested at last on the grove i 'action, tip-toeing from one end of of coniferous trees. So that was the thc ridge-pole to the other and chucki-| haunted grove? That dark silent ' in & W*Hj to himself. Then suddenly, spicy bit of isolated loneliness far be- h " l '--' nish< " 1 trnm ^"^ low wag the spot he had so feared! But he feared it no longer. She had cured him of that. She had said that fear of the supernatural was foolish; ard of c(.urse she was right. A fat red]uirrel frisked down a tree ol'ise beside him and halted, pop- eyed, to gaze upon him. "I tell you," Billy addressed it gravely, "it takes u good woman to steady a man." The statement was not of his own creation. He had heard it somewhere but he had never understood its meaning before. It seemed the fitting thing to say now ami there was nobody to say it to except the squirrel. A blue-jay and a yellow-hammer vanished from sight. "Where has he gone?" whispered "Hush," warned Billy. His heart was pounding. The watchers stood with eyes glued to the ridge-pole. By and by they' saw a black tail-feather obtrude itself from a hole just beneath the roof's : gable. A black body followed and Croaker came tip-toeing back along ridge. hd! tighten spasmodically on hers. She glanced up to find him staring, wide- eyed at the bird. "Billy!" she whispered, almost for- flnshed by him, side by side, racing ls getting caution in her anxiety. "What for the grubbing-fields of the soft woods below, their blue and yellow bodies marking twin streaks against the hazy light. Blue and yellow, truly the most wonderful colors of all the colorful world, thought Billy. The scene faded and in its place grew up a face with blu, laughing eyes and red, smiling lips, above which gleamed a halo of spun gold. Then the wood- land picture swam back before him and the squirrel, which with the char- acteristic patience of its kind had waited to watch this boy who often threw it a nut-kernel, called after him chidingly as hc dipped down into the valley. Billy was still thinking of the only He pointed a shaking finger at Croaker. "See that shiny thing that old rogue has in his bill, Lou?" he asked. "What do you 'spose that is?" "Why, what is it?" "It's one of the gold pieces your, uncle hid away. Come on, now we'll! see that Croaker throw a fit." I They stepped out into plain view of the crow, who was muttering to tho gold-piece which ho now held before, his eyes in one black claw. Crocker lowered his head and twisted it f rom | side to side in sheer wonder. Hc could! scarcely believe his eyes. Then as Billy] stepped forward and called him by! name his black neck-ruff arose in anger und, dropping his prized bit of *J * "^I'ltirviiiKUItllt^llIlly r. ~ ' girl when hc topped the farther ridge * ol(l ' he P our u ed ui * uc * ? , U T ri>n ^ " f and descended into the valley where ' llbuso upon th * ^ and * lr] tnBt ljOU stood the haunted grove. He wohdered j P'' 1 her . fin K crs in her ears to stop what she would say when he told her' 1 ,.,5" . , the great nw.s he had to tell her. H L..?*? a , ' ."V^. f 1 " 1 !" 161 '. . Bl11 }': thought he knew. She would put her; , Hu s b , cen kc . e P ln ,, th ' s flnt! to himself hand on his arm and say: "Billy I'm fer n ng time. At sound of his triad." Well he was on his way to i mastf>r s voice Croaker paused in his hi-nr her s-ay it. As he entered a harangue ond promptly changed his -.lump of cedars he saw her. She wore I 't 01 ' "' Ho swoopH <'wn to Billy s the words, season to taste. 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A-l. for jest watch him." | "What you want 'a do, Croaker?", he asked, stroking the bird's neck , fp.ithrra smooth. I "Kawak!" said Oronker, and jump-! ing to the ground he started away, i heart twisted backward toward the boy Diamond Ware h a tlireo-coated enameled , sky I, In anil wliile outside with a wnowy I'earl \Viue in enameled steel :) of pearl fcrw enamel, inside |\ while lining. \ I vih two riml: . If ..'I'l IIUl. HEET METAL PRODUCTS. Co TOR OC .' WINNIPEG ' W ~~' J Hard* Every ware "No, sir," cried Billy. "You don't i fool me ng'in. I'm goin' to climb up ; there an' see jest how much gold is hid in that hole under the gable." Croaker watched him reach for a eh ink in the logs and raise himself to- | ward the treasure house. Then he ; became silent ami sat huddled up, wings drooping discontentedly, his whole aspe-ft one of litter despair. l.ou, bending to caress him, heard Billy tfive an exclamation, and ran forwarrl. 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